What is the ruling on the practice of "Tasfeeh" performed by some older women on young girls to prevent the rupture of the hymen?
Observing a ritual in which a girl's knee is cut seven times, then raisins are smeared with the blood from these wounds and swallowed by the girl while chanting a specific phrase seven times, claiming that this protects her, and then the ritual is repeated when she marries, is considered sorcery, charlatanism, and superstition that a Muslim must avoid.
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